Covid19 Part XVII-24,841 in ROI (1,639 deaths) 4,679 in NI (518 deaths)(28/05)Read OP

Wibbs wrote: »

Or it's just possible that this virus has gone somewhat to ground in the community and it may actually stay there and "burn out" without causing too many clusters and new outbreaks. Good antibody testing will be interesting. If this pox was here for longer than we believe today, say early January, we may find that a helluva lot of people have already had it and either didn't come down with any symptoms(maybe because of existing immunity to other coronaviruses, even flu), or had mild symptoms. That's a hope anyway.

We can hope. If it does burn out it would be a nightmare in terms of vaccine development if it cant be tested but great for everyone else if it does burn out. Who knows

New York has reported negative daily death toll as a retraction of 254 probably deaths outnumbers the number of new deaths today, good to see they are clearly doing post morterms to get an accurate picture of the true total

One of my neighbours rang to tell me their 80 something yr old mother just tested positive, got bad lastnight and was brought off in the ambulance. For the last 10 days every son and daughter she had (quite a few) visted her and brought the grandkids.

Warned them til I was blue in the face about all the visitors but sure "it'll be grand". Tears and arguments ahead of them now as the finger pointing begins.

This isn't an "I told you so" moment. I hope she comes out of it. But FFS can people not just bite the bullet and endure another few weeks of the restrictions and follow the guidelines. It's always going to be someone else and not me attitude until the chickens come home to roost.


Came back from work in a tourism location and we had a little over hundred cars in the space of 8 hours (some families) and a ridiculous amount of walkers/cyclists. 5kms my arse and the gardai are useless since they were rang and never bother coming for 2 hours. Was told they don't have the manpower to cover everywhere and are short staffed sinc eofficers are not doing overtime now (you'd think they'd sieze every chance to work up overtime pay). Spoke to a CIE/Bus Eireann driver today (at a safe social distance) that came off the bus for a smoke and he is annoyed they didn't make masks mandatory on buses.

Side note: Sorry, needed to vent.

Maestro85 wrote: »

One of my neighbours rang to tell me their 80 something yr old mother just tested positive, got bad lastnight and was brought off in the ambulance. For the last 10 days every son and daughter she had (quite a few) visted her and brought the grandkids.

Warned them til I was blue in the face about all the visitors but sure "it'll be grand". Tears and arguments ahead of them now as the finger pointing begins.

This isn't an "I told you so" moment. I hope she comes out of it. But FFS can people not just bite the bullet and endure another few weeks of the restrictions and follow the guidelines. It's always going to be someone else and not me attitude until the chickens come home to roost.


Came back from work in a tourism location and we had a little over hundred cars in the space of 8 hours (some families) and a ridiculous amount of walkers/cyclists. 5kms my arse and the gardai are useless since they were rang and never bother coming for 2 hours. Was told they don't have the manpower to cover everywhere and are short staffed sinc eofficers are not doing overtime now (you'd think they'd sieze every chance to work up overtime pay). Spoke to a CIE/Bus Eireann driver today (at a safe social distance) that came off the bus for a smoke and he is annoyed they didn't make masks mandatory on buses.

Side note: Sorry, needed to vent.

Just on the garda point. There is no more overtime available, the OT budget is gone. Any overtime has to be signed off now at senior level, extra hours for checkpoints etc are basically gone.

Beasty wrote: »

Question is can the Relaxation of Restrictions threads catch up?

RoR is hardcore Beasty. I took a day off and when I came back you had threadbanned 15 people lol

Steve F wrote: »

Humans :- "I'm tired of lockdown and social distancing"
Virus:- "I'm not tired and still as potent as day 1"

that's probably wrong, viruses tend to mutate to weaker strains

Maestro85 wrote: »

15... that's brutal.

Yeah OT was there if he wanted it. 3 hours on a checkpoint after he was supposed to finish. Absolutely brutal though. But most of them dont want to go back to the old roster they prefer the 12hr shifts of 4 on 4 off

wakka12 wrote: »

Is it hard to imagine that a virus with a high R0 would begin to spread within European countries that did not even carry out the most basic containment measures on arrivals such as temperature screening or cancelling flights from affected areas?Perhaps those measures wouldnt have had much impact long term, but I still am surprised myself that it's arrival to Europe came as a shock to so many

It didn't just seem likely, it seemed inevitable

I believe the arrival in Europe came as a shock as it did because it was circulating a lot longer than health expert's though.
If it was circulating 6 to 8 weeks longer in the community than though till a person ended up in hospital that would be a fair spread in the community and once it got into a hospital setting bam there is a hospital infected before anyone even realized it was in there country.
Europe was expecting it but it arrived before anyone had thought and no one was prepared.

tom1ie wrote: »

Ffs. Why can’t people get this into their head. ITALY ARE AHEAD OF US WHEN IT COMES TO THE LOCKDOWN.
that means they will be ahead of us in reopening their country compared to us.
It’s not rocket science.

Italy entered their lockdown on the 9th of March. Ireland has been following these restrictions since 24th of March so barely two weeks in the difference. So, in essence; why are we three months behind them in opening up?
SHOUTING your answer doesn’t make you any more convincing.

Deleted User wrote: »

On my street there's kids still mixing freely, quite annoying. One of whom is dropped to his granny's by his mother who from her clothes works as a carer/nurse. He then plays with the other kids. They want to pet my dog, I have to tell them to **** off. There's being lax and there's being a piece of ****.

Same people will argue that's why creches should be opened. I don't get the mindset. Even if we turn a blind eye to the adult interaction attitude of we are young and healthy enough to survive it, it still doesn't justify kids and old people. The uniform thing is mind boggling. I change out of my work clothes and wash them every evening when I come home and have a routine of washing before I go near the wife (who has bad asthma). It's not that hard to change a routine and maybe I am going overboard on the washing of my uniform given my job has limited interactions with people but to me it is about personal responsibility.


I was actually wondering about the whole dog thing too. One of the ladies at work has been bring in her dog and everyone pats it, even I have, but it only dawned on me a few days ago that a dog could be a potential point of picking it up.

New Home wrote: »

That's the start date, but they didn't start relaxing their restrictions until last week (I think), so we're not three months behind them.

We will be come August, is the point I’m making.